Dunlap v. Jeffcoat

BRADLEY, Judge.

This is a child custody case.

The appellee, Mrs. Robert K. Jeff coat, was awarded permanent custody of a minor *1381child by the Circuit Court of Montgomery County in a proceeding wherein the appellant, the natural father, had sought custody. He appeals.

These proceedings had their genesis in 1974 when the child’s natural mother was killed and the appellant was sentenced to prison. The record is unclear as to whether there was any connection between the appellant’s prison sojourn and his wife’s death.

Upon being sentenced to prison, the appellant carried the child, then about six…